This website is a labour of love, and grew out of old, old blogs and a dog sitting business.

If you’re like me, you love animals regardless if they’re furred, haired, feathered, or quilled. From the time, as a child, I could sneak animals into my room in a variety of cardboard boxes, I have loved them. Inevitably, I was found out. The kitten went elsewhere, the cricket went back outside, despite its gimpy leg. Part of my childhood was populated by elephants, orangutans, and gibbons, and only as an adult did I find out their conservation challenges. Imagine my relief when I could decide for myself whether I could help, and what form that help could take. It has been years of rehabilitating wildlife, teaching Humane Education programs, fostering puppies and kittens, and providing care for my community in the form of a business offering dog boarding, and elderly hospice care for dogs. I’ve (mostly) retired now, but my love of animals continues, and I seek new ways in which I can help.

Along the way, I held (and still do) a high level of concern for the plight of wildlife, lives directly influenced by the decisions of humans, not just the wildlife that I rehabilitate, but the lives of species all around the world. Lives affected by habitat loss, pollution, and human greed. I have also been more and more cognizant of and felt compassionate grief for the cruelties inflicted on animals in factory farming. This website, while far from complete, will offer you some resources about the issues facing them, and sanctuaries and organizations trying to help, which may spark ideas of what you can do to help. I also write about the care of our pets, because they’re in our immediate circle. I know that you feel compassion for those companions you love and those you know. Companions animals face so many challenges of their own. They need us.

This website, as mentioned, is a work in progress, to which I’ll continually add information and resources. I know the pages need clean-up. A lot of clean up. Oh my goodness, a daunting amount. Plus over time, I’ll annotate each link so you can see more about each. Where I’ve been able to find photo credits, I’ve listed them. But if you are the owner of a photograph that has not been credited, my apologies, and please let me know and I’ll remove it or credit you, as you wish!

The conservation, rescue, and care of animals, whether companion, farmed, or wild, is an immense effort in our world, and encompasses tremendous resources, and we can all do our part.